When Cpl. Daveon Hall did not show up to work his 3 p.m. shift as a Miami-Dade corrections officer or answer his phone, his mother went to his apartment.

"The door was unlocked," Barbara Drummond said Sunday. "I found him dead on the living room floor."

Drummond said that after she "screamed, bawled, and almost fainted, I pulled myself together and called 911."

Police said Hall, 40, was discovered about 5:30 p.m. Friday in a unit inside the Arium Resort apartment community, in the 1000 block of Southwest 122nd Avenue.

The death has been classified as a homicide, but investigators have not provided any details of the slaying.

Drummond, a resident of Miami-Dade County, said police told her that her son had been shot.

Hall has been a Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department employee since 2000, Drummond said. He was also a certified police officer and had hopes of becoming a firefighter, she said.

Born in Jamaica, Hall came to the U.S. with his family when he was 6, Drummond said. He was a graduate of American High School in Hialeah and played football at Mesabi Range Community & Technical College in Minnesota, she said.

Authorities have made a second arrest in the January murder of a Miami-Dade Corrections officer.
21-year-old Ockeeve Sinclair was located and taken into custody in Fort Pierce Thursday, according to Pembroke Pines Police.

Sinclair and 29-year-old Brian Fairweather, who was arrested in April, are both charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Daveon Hall. A Broward County Grand Jury indicted both men on the charges this week.